外研版八年级上册英语课文(全册)(3)

Module 8

Unit1 while the lights were changing to red ,a car suddenly appeared

Betty: Good morning, Ms James! You look pale. Are you all right?

Ms James: Im OK, but I saw an accident. A boy was riding his bike and listening to music on the road.

Daming: That’s very dangerous!

Ms James: I was waiting to cross the road. While the lights were changing to red, a ca r suddenly appeared round the corner. It wasn?t going fast, but it didn?t stop. Lingling: Did the boy stop?

Ms James: No. And the driver was talking on his mobile phone.

Betty: So did the car hit the boy?

Ms James: No, I?m glad to say. The car stopped just in time, but the boy fell off his bi ke and hurt his knee.

Tony: That’s too bad.

Ms James: So when youre on your bike, think about the risk of an accident! Pay atte ntion, stop at the red lights and…..what else?

Betty: Don’t ride too fast

Daming : Don’t ride side by side with your friends.

All: Don’t listen to music!

Unite 2

One day, when Henry was working in a restaurant, a snake suddenly appeared and bit his hand. A few days earlier, the snake arrived from Asia in a box of bananas. It c limbed out and hid somewhere.

“I was trying to pick it up when it bit me again. I threw it across the kitchen, an d it landed on a table.??

While the snake was lying on the table, Henry quickly picked up his mobile phon e and took a photo with it. Then the snake hid behind the fridge When Henry was try ing to find the snake， his hand began to hurt badly. He hurried to hospital. As the do ctors were checking him, the pain got worse . But they could not help him because t hey did not know what kind of snake bit him.

As he was lying there in great pain, Henry suddenly remembered the photo. The doctors sent the photo to a zoo. As soon as they learnt what kind of snake bit him, th ey gave Henry the right medicine and he left hospital the next day.

“So if a snake bites you, take out your mobile phone or camera. Take its photo, an d show the photo to the doctors …?, suggests Henry.

“But as you know, the snake won’t smile!”

Module 9 Population

Unit1 the population of China is about 1.37 billion

Betty: What are you doing?

Tony: I?m preparing some notes for a report called “Our growing population.”Lingling: Well, w e re in the right place to talk about that! Beijing is a huge city with a big population that causes a lot of problems, such as too much traffic and noise. Betty: Its not only Beijing. Population increase is a big problem in many countries. D o you know how many babies are born every minute in the world?

Tony: No. Can you tell me?

Betty: Over 250! That makes over 131.4 million births a year

Lingling: I can’t believe it!

Betty: The population of China is about 1.37 billion. Thats almost one fifth of the wor ld’s population, that is, about 7 billion.

Tony: Hang on a minute! I?ll write that down too!

Betty: But in the future, Chinas population wont grow so fast, because families are ge tting smaller.

Lingling: How do you know all this?

Betty: I wrote my report yesterday!

Tony: Great, thanks! Now I can write my report!

Unit 2

Jo is fifteen and lives in Parkville.

When Jo?s grandparents first came to Parkville, it was a quiet village. They had a small house. Close to fields md hills. Parkville was near Arnwick, a city with 200,00 0 people. People from Parkville moved to Armwick to find jobs. And they needed p laces to live.

However, it was expensive to live in the city centre, so the government built flats o utside the centre. Soon, Parkville became part of Arnwick.And Arnwick became a ci ty with over a million people. Jo?s family lives in one of those flats. It is very crowde d, and rubbish is also a problem.

The small local school in Parkville closed down five years ago, so Jo now has to g o to a school in Arnwick with 2,000 pupils. It takes an hour to get there by bus. There is a lot of traffic and pollution. It is clear that Arnwick needs more schools, buses and hospitals. It needs fresh air clean water and better public services. It also needs mor e police to protect its people. But to do all these things, it needs more money. However, can money help solve all these problems? Do we need more big cities l ike this? In fact, this is just a story. In fact, this is just a story.

But it describes what is happening all over the world. Could it be your town some day?

Module 10 The weather

Unit 1 It might snow

Betty: Hey, boys!

Tony: Hi, Betty. Hi, Lingling, Where are you going?

Betty: We?re going to the park to skate, There?s thick ice on the lake, Are you comin g with US?

Tony: Are you joking? It’s really cold today.

Daming: And it’s cloudy too so it might snow.

Lingling: What’s the temperature?

Tony: It?s between minus eight and minus two degrees! Winter is colder here than i E ngland.

Daming: Is it snowy in England in December?

Tony: Not usually, although this year it snowed quite a lot, Most Decembers are we a nd rainy.

Daming: What’s the weather like in America in winter, Betty?

Betty: We have cold winters and hot summers. It?s snowy in New York in winter. Tony: Sounds great ! I like sunny weather, and I like snow as well. But I don?t like sh owers or windy weather.

Betty: Me neither, Rainy weather is terrible! I wish I were in Australia now, It?s Proba bly sunny and hot there.

Lingling: You can go to Hainan lsland if you like sunny weather.

Betty: One day I will.

Lingling: Come on, better get going! We can skate in the park and get warm.

Unit 2 The weather is fine all year round.

The US is a very big country.

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